Properties

=__//Properties of sorell.//__=

By 1806 the first farms were under cultivation in Gloucester as Sorell district was then known. :

(this infomation was from the [|sorell website]).
 * Robert Alloms or Allomes || Charles Anthony || William Baxter || Jacob Billett or Bellette ||
 * John or James Birchall || Richard Buckingham || James Davies || Frederick Dawes ||
 * J. Duncombe || William Fenner || Arnold Fisk || Mary Fogarty ||
 * Silas Gatehouse || James Grimes || William Hambly || James Hannaway ||
 * Jane Hobbs || William Hopley || Jane Horton (Gill), || A.W.H.Humphrey ||
 * John Ingle || Charles Jeffries || Thomas Kent || John Knox ||
 * Alexander Laing || I. Larsome || John Liddle || David Lord ||
 * Edward Lord || R. W. Loane || William McDowall || John Miles ||
 * George Morrisby || Robert Nash || Thomas Pennington || J. Prestage ||
 * Bartholomew Reardon || Walter Redpath || Mary Richardson || Thomas Riley ||
 * S. Sederick || James Turnbull || John Wade || M. Wicks ||
 * Charles Willis || J. Wilson || William Wilson || W. Wood ||
 * Thomas Richardson || Thomas Solly? ||

Sorell was A big farming communety they transported crops and vegetables to nabring counetys too sell at markets. there were two wind mills couled nash wind will and down warn wind mill. Farming is was an imporetnt part of sorell history and the mane thing that sorell farmed was weet and moat of the weet war trasported to sydny. In 1815, so much wheat was being produced that a flour mill was built by Robert Nash.

John Birchall of Marsh Farm, began in 1816 a wheat delivery service from Pittwater to Kangaroo Point on his new schooner 'Young William' at a rate of 1/6 a bushell.

[|Pictures of the windmill]

In south, sheep dominated the Bream creek area around the coastal flats with dairying the prefered industry on the rich basalt soils of the Ragged tier and at Nugent. Dairy properties were genrally small familys properties with produce being sold to the bream creek butter factory from 1899.Pigs were also raised at Bream ceek and sold at the sorell sale yards.

=Quiz!=
 * 1) Who and when did people own property in Sorell?
 * 2) Who own the very first property and in what year in Sorell?
 * 3) What was farmed most in Sorell?
 * 4) Where was the most of the weet transported to?
 * 5) How long till the house plough stopped work?
 * 6) Which was the biggest property?
 * 7) When did farming start in sorell?
 * 8) were was the one wind mills built and by who?